Sad Forebodings of What is Going to Happen, plate one from The Disasters of War
1814/20, published 1863
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Spanish, 1746-1828
Spain
The lone figure kneeling in a garden evokes Christ in the garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion. Ill-defined chaos swirls in the dark background, as the man’s outstretched arms signal his apprehension of and abandonment to the unknown future.
Etching, burin, drypoint and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges